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"Staying in Dialogue with China" webinar series

A Europe-China initiative meant to provide access to relevant, high-level and articulate Chinese and China-based viewpoints on key domestic policy and economic as well as foreign policy and geopolitical issues for European strategic decision-making and interested audiences

Hosted and curated by CMG in collaboration with partners

Webinar series – 4th edition (2025)

China’s 15th Five-Year-Plan (FYP) 2026-2020 – building towards China’s next milestone in 2035 under unabating geopolitical pressure

The theme of this year’s edition is China’s upcoming 15th Five-Year-Plan (FYP, 2026-2030) and we curate again six webinars with six distinct angles on the main theme. The 15th FYP is being drafted these months with its outline (纲要建议) communicated foreseeably in October 2025 after the 20th Central Committee’s Fifth Plenum endorses it and then the full plan will be formally decided and published at the NPC in March 2026.

26 February 2025

9-945am CET | 4-445pm CST

Dealing with Trump 2.0 - is China making tactical or strategic adjustments in view of the 15th Five-Year-Plan?

DA Wei, Director of Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) and Professor of International Relations, Tsinghua University

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23 April 2025

9-945am CEST | 3-345pm CST

Four years into 14th Five-Year-Plan - taking stock of its execution after the NPC 2025

ZHU Guangyao, Vice Chairman of CCIEE and Former Vice Minister of Finance,

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20 June 2025

9-945am CEST | 3-345pm CST

The long view - 10-year outlook imagining China in 2035 as the next key modernization milestone

ZHANG Dandan, Professor in Economics (with tenure) and Deputy Dean at the National School of Development, and Deputy Dean of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, Peking University

September 2025

9-945am CEST | 3-345pm CST

China-EU relations - ingredient or impediment to aid China's development until 2030

CAI Run (TBC), Ambassador of PRC Delegation to the European Union (EU)

November 2025

9-945am CET | 4-445pm CST

"Reality check" - interpreting the "15th Five-Year-Plan outline" as per the 20th CC 5th Plenum and anticipating shifts

BAI Chong-En, Dean of School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

December 2025

9-945am CET | 4-445pm CST

Transitioning to the 15th Five-Year-Plan - zooming-in on Shenzhen as local government case-study

ZHANG Lin, Director of Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality

Host and moderator

Markus Herrmann Chen

Co-Founder and Managing Director, China Macro Group (CMG)

Webinar series – 3rd edition (2024)

Six structural transitions in China’s evolving political economy:

Making sense of policymaking under the 14th Five-Year-Plan (2021-2025) to govern the economy towards “High-Quality-Development”

CMG has developed a framework that helps us make sense of China’s evolving political economy and the strategic business context for foreign business on a structural level. We conceptualize China’s political economy as six structural transitions that Chinese policymakers have been shaping, and which since the adoption of the 14th Five-Year-Plan (2021-2025) notably also involve policy-steered trade-off and rebalancing processes. To explore, debate and refine this conceptualization, we dedicated our 2024 ‘Staying in dialogue with China’ webinar series to these six structural transitions featuring six distinguished Chinese economists as expert speakers.